Motivational Quotes

Life

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Best Quotes about Life

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

10.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

11.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

12.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

14.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

15.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

16.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

18.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

19.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

20.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

21.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

22.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

23.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

24.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

25.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

26.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

28.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

29.

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

30.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

31.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

32.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

33.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

34.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

35.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

37.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

38.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

39.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

40.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

41.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

42.

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

43.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

44.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

45.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

47.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

48.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

49.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

50.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.